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[–] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Dan Hendrycks wants us all to know it's imperative his AI kill switch bill is passed- after all, the cosmos are at stake here!

https://xcancel.com/DrTechlash/status/1805448100712267960#m

Super weird that despite receiving 20 million dollars in funding from SBF & co. and not being able to shut the fuck up about 10^^^10 future human lives the moment he goes on a podcast, Danny boy insists that any allegations that he is lobbying on behalf of the EAs are simply preposterous.

Now please hand over your gpus uwu, it’s for your safety 🤗 we don’t allow people to have fissile material, so why would we allow them to multiply matrices?

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Tired: The earth is doomed due to climate change :(

Wired: Ignore that stuff; the cosmos are at stake unless we burn our planet generating bad AI generated "poetry"

Inspired: Oh wait oh no, Oh no. this is where Vogon Poetry came from isn't it? Burn it all down.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

turns out there was a good reason they wanted to turf us, we just didn't know it yet

[–] saucerwizard@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

What is it about growing up in insular fundamentalist communities that drives peeps straight into the basilisk's scaly embrace?

[–] saucerwizard@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Theres a specific word for that phenomena I believe, I just can’t remember at the moment. It certainly is a thing with all the high control group cults, say ex-JW’s.

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago

Crank magnetism?